Ripple XRP rallied on Thursday, with prices testing two-week highs after Western Union confirmed a pilot partnership with the San Francisco-based company. // -- Discuss and ask questions in our Facebook Group Western Union to Pilot xRapid System After much speculation, Western Union’s Chief Technology Officer Sheri Rhodes indicated that the global money transfer system will in fact integrate Ripple’s xRapid. “We continue to explore possible blockchain applications for our business, and we are piloting some settlement tests with Ripple for certain corridors,” Rhodes said, as quoted by Yahoo Finance and CCN. She added: “For blockchain in general, we’re looking at areas...